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Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866)
Almqvist, Carl Jonas Ludvig (älm’kvist). A notable Swedish poet, novelist, and miscellaneous writer; born in Stockholm, Nov. 28, 1793; died in Bremen, Sept. 26, 1866. A writer of great versatility, author of a series of educational works, treatises on the mental, moral, and political sciences, on philology, religion, mathematics, philosophy, and national economy, etc., of novels and tales, dramas, poems, lyric and epical. Charged with forgery and murder he spent the last fifteen years of his life in America, returning to Europe to die. ‘The Book of the Rose’ (1832–35), a collection of dramatic and lyric pieces, is his best-known work. ‘It’s All Right’ and ‘The Palace,’ novels, ‘Araminta May’ and ‘Skällnora’s Will,’ tales, are also popular. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).